Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems

Audre Lorde (1934-92) described herself as ‘Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet’. Her extraordinary belief in the power of language – of speaking – to articulate selfhood, confront injustice and bring about change in the world remains as transformative today as it was then, and no less urgent. 

Your Silence Will Not Protect You brings Lorde's poetry and prose together for the first time. 

With a Preface by Reni Eddo-Lodge and an Introduction by Sara Ahmed

Audre Lorde (1934-1992) was a writer, feminist and civil rights activist. Born in New York in 1934, she had her first poem published while she was still in high school. After stints as a factory worker, ghost writer, social worker, X-ray technician, medical clerk, and arts and crafts supervisor, she became a librarian in Manhattan and gradually rose to prominence as a poet, essayist and speaker, anthologised by Langston Hughes, lauded by Adrienne Rich, and befriended by James Baldwin. She was made Poet Laureate of New York State in 1991, when she was awarded the Walt Whitman prize; she was also awarded honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin and Haverford colleges. 

Reni Eddo-Lodge is a London based journalist, author, and podcaster. 

Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer and independent scholar. 

• Dimensions 20 x 13 x 2.2 cm
• Author Audre Lorde
• ISBN 9780995716223
• Paperback Yes
• Publisher Silver Press
• No of pages 220